Guysssss the theater here is playing 1-3 Ghibli movies a month for the rest of the year and it’s great

So today I told my mom I needed a break from communicating with her then walked downtown and saw Spirited Away for the first time with root beer and sour skittles, which was somehow the exact vibe I needed. It was kind of cold and windy walking back though.

How is everyone else’s day?

Has there ever been an explanation for this? Were they just like "hey man you wanna rile up the internet for the next ten years?" Or was there an actual reason for them kissing?

hey it gets better once you stop living with your mom right

The struggles of being a closeted trans woman in a writing class:

Teacher to me (visibly AMAB): I think you should rework the last scene. I think the female character gets too emotional. It’s too stereotypical, women don’t really act that.

5 seconds later…

Teacher to other student (visibly AFAB): I think you’re character (female) should be more emotionally intuitive. Maybe she asks her (other female character) if she’s ok ‘cause she’s clearly distressed.

SERIOUSLY?!!!

For context my character was being coerced into a the position of condoning the murder of the first sentient android and absolving the cyberpunk corporation that created it of any ethical responsibility. She was (understandably) pissed off, upset, concerned for the android and even a little scared about what they may do to her for refusing to cooperate. She had also just had her worldview entirely shattered as she had built her whole career on arguing that A.I could never achieve consciousness. Suffice to say she was a little shaken up emotionally speaking. The character in the other script was just walking in on another student looking a little down in their uni dorms. (No hate to that writer, they’re very good)

Seriously maybe instead of saying ‘oh it’s too stereotypical’ for female characters to act emotional, we stop reinforcing the societal pressure to suppress our emotions and let characters (and people!) express intense emotional reactions??? Especially in intense emotional situations!!! HOW ABOUT THAT HUH???

we have ferris bueller’s day off, we have humboldt county, we have igby goes down... all these movies have clear and BLATANT succ traces, but where is our shiv prequel movie? tell me. please, don’t tell me we don’t have one.

does that weird sickly sweet smell of (some?) garbage bags remind anyone of the scent of death or just me

Guys we’re having a breakdown or a breakthrough

How do you pick a fursona? Is there a uquiz we all trust or it’s like a listen to your heart kinda thing?

possibly a dumb/obvious question: what did I do wrong with the mesh here?

in (your version of) an ideal society, how are agreements reached? how are decisions made? whose voice contributes and whose is final?

(ok dont come at me but watching wall-e for the first time and)

how in the literal fuckity fuck is there a LIVING PLANT inside a fridge

doesnt matter what happens the entire rest of this movie i will be annoyed bc it is literally impossible to have a plant growing inside a sealed box with no sun h2o or co2

loud explosions in space, fine. lightsabers, the force fine. magic, witches, wizards, invisibility cloaks, fine. talking animals, sentient castle objects, aliens, princesses getting married off at 16, ftl space travel, reanimated corpses, vampires, time travel, all delightful.

but APPARENTLY a fucking plant is where my brain decides to draw the line for suspension of disbelief.

It’s kinda funny because my parents keep yelling at my sibling for “not trying to stay focused” and for “only trying at the stuff they like” and “never following through with an interest”. I think that’s just ADHD?? I mean, feel free to correct me but

Isn’t this essentially ADHD??? I have so many friends with ADHD and they remind me of my friends sm. I don’t think my parents would believe me if I tried to tell them, but my sibling just has some form of ADHD right?

what do i say if someone compliments my shoelaces but i did them all nice and ladder laced

I feel like the Hbomberguy plagiarism video has a lot of really good lessons about building an argument. Like, the thesis of the video isn't just "Plagiarism is rife on Youtube", although that point was certainly well made, it was specifically about James Somerton, who isn't mentioned until about halfway through the video. Before then, Hbomb goes through several creators who are already widely discredited as plagiarists, and in each section he introduces concepts that are later incorporated into the final takedown of Somerton, but each section also stands on it's own. Like, he starts with Filip, the game reviewer, which he uses to introduce the format of how he will discuss and expose plagiarists. Specifically, the graphic of displaying the source material while the plagiarist's voice plays, and marking up said source material every time the plagiarist changes some wording slightly. This is the method that Hbomb uses across the entire video. With Illuminaughtii, Hbomb introduces a few major concepts 1) The idea of Insufficient citation. Illuminaughtii "Cites" her sources by putting a plaintext pastebin link in her video descriptions with no indication of how each source was used. Technically, her source is CITED, but not in any relevant or useful way. She has a big list of stuff she read, and a random youtube link in there happens to be the source that she stole 90% of the video from. 2) He introduces the profit motive behind this approach. Putting out a lot of content very quickly is how one builds an audience, and therefore an income, out of making stuff on youtube. Plagiarism of this sort is a way to produce content very quickly and build a following. The Internet Historian section introduces two new concepts:

1) The behavior of an exposed plagiarist, taking down and reuploading videos with minor changes, awkwardly trying to insert credit without admitting guilt. 2) That the plagiarists are stealing not just research, but STYLE. Previous sections go over how the plagiarists are reusing the same words, but this section oozes over how much of the final product's quality was the result of how well the source material was written. TIH didn't just crib the notes from the Mentalfloss article, he created a video heavily dependent on the original author's skill as a writer. When TIH tried his own hand at presenting the same set of facts, it came out much worse. So that when the time comes for the Somerton takedown, Hbomb has already laid the groundwork to bring these concepts back. Somerton takes down and reuploads videos when he's caught, he declares this his video is "based on" work by somebody else without providing proper citation. He's not just stealing research done by somebody else, he's taking their insights and talent as a writer and regurgitating it as his own, and he's doing so to churn out a vast wall of content that he can financially benefit from, and he doesn't need to tell you why this is important, because he's already done so. He already convinced you that Illuminaughtii hiding a line in a pastebin didn't excuse her plagiarism, so you don't need to be told why Somerton saying his video is "Based On" somebody else's book doesn't excuse it.

what does it say about me that 2 of my bestest friends think i could kin from saw (either one of those gay motherfuckers or amanda)

we need to destroy the idea that girls should wear makeup. normalize bare faces on prom queens and flower girls and cheerleaders. no products at all instead of '7 product simple makeup routine.' no more 10 step skincare and regular facials and dermablading and gua sha just to be comfortable with yr natural face. i want to see eye bags on the funny librarian and acne on the swim coach and wrinkles on all our adult role models. i want to see a 16 year old girl that has never tried putting on eyeshadow. i want to see a 7 year old girl who doesn't have to go out and buy powder for her dance recital. i want to see trans women and girls everywhere to never have to wear makeup, regardless of how well they 'pass.' no more 'contouring to look masc' either. a post-beauty industry world is possible

reblogs are on but if you bring up the stage makeup point that i have addressed three times yr blocked on sight ☹️

babys first time on the puter